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to anagram

1 6.6

To put the letters of a word or phrase in a different order to make a new word

verb
/ˈænəˌɡræm/

: anagramar

Anyway, the protagonist of Abundance is a kid who anagrams things all over the place.

Examples

I love to anagram names; for example, 'Clint Eastwood' becomes 'old west action'.
Reading about that made me want to anagram some, so here's my best shot with Anya's name.

Blog text (28)
Can you anagram the letters in 'listen' to find another word?
To make this game more fun, try to anagram some of the words on the board.

Synonyms

to anagrammatize

vsto anagram

9.9

To move the letters of a word or phrase to make a new one

is the simpler, more common verb form rather than a technical variant

How Rearranged

to scramble

85 2.6

to anagram

1 6.6

to rearrange

48 2.1

to transpose

5 6.8

Surface Forms

anagram infinitive

anagrammed past

anagrammed past participle

anagramming present participle

anagrams third person singular

Etymology

Anagram as a verb comes from the Greek parts ana- 'again' and gramma 'letter', like the gramma in telegram. So to anagram something is to 'write the letters again' — to change the order of the letters to make a new word or phrase.